3511
Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
After about a decade of dealing with this madness, surely it's been worthwhile? No, not really.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
3512
Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem. Browsing and searching the web sensibly has become all but impossible. In response, today we are launching the public beta of two essential tools that...
3513
Connect: A Better gRPC
Use Connect to build simple, stable, browser and gRPC-compatible APIs.
3514
3515
Scaling a startup from a bunker: founders' story from Ukraine
This is a story of how we survived, relocated a team, and scaled our startup under never-ending missile attacks.
3516
The First Lisp Compiler
This page examines the earliest surviving Lisp compiler, written by Timothy Hart and Michael Levin around 1961. To avoid repetition of phrases like “the compiler”, we will use the abbreviation “ HLC ” (for “Hart–Levin Compiler”) to refer to it. The HLC was introduced in M.I.T. AIM -039 and documented more fully in the…
3517
TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
Learn the details of this press release.
3518
High-Throughput, Formal-Methods-Assisted Fuzzing for LLVM
Mutation-based fuzzing is based on the idea that new, bug-triggering inputs can often be created by randomly modifying existing, non-bug-triggering inputs. For example, if we wanted to find bugs in a PDF reader, we could grab a bunch of PDF files off the web, mutate them by flipping a few bits or something, and feed…
3519
My Mega65 has arrived
This week I returned from a business trip overseas for the past few weeks. This is why I haven't been able to blog this month until now. But...
3520
What good cash-strapped hiring looks like
Bootstrapped operators who take their hiring seriously all eventually end up designing a system with the same fundamental approach. Here's how you can do it too.
3521
3522
Gmail accepts forged YouTube emails
This morning I woke up to an official-looking email from YouTube in my inbox, addressed to an address that isn't mine.
3523
3524
WebGPT: Improving the factual accuracy of language models through web browsing
We’ve fine-tuned GPT-3 to more accurately answer open-ended questions using a text-based web browser.
3525
Who owns Parliament?
This week, MPs have returned to Parliament from their summer recess. As they walk through its corridors, drink in its subsidised bars, and plot in its tea-rooms, I wonder how many MPs stop to ask: …
3526
Top-500 NPM package maintainers now require 2FA
Two-Factored Authentication (2FA) is now enforced for maintainers of the top-500 packages, by dependents, on the npm registry. To learn more about configuring 2FA, see Configuring two-factor authentication. To learn…
3527
You don’t need to be “enterprise-ready” or “scalable”
Fretting over scaling issues too soon, often means laboriously imagining and lugging product freight from the future. It’s believing that the faint, distorted, mostly unreachable calls of possible features and overnight adoption fears matter more than the asks of the present roadmap. In the following exchange…
3528
3529
Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
3530
Thin Platforms
The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms
3531
RCE over ham radio – Reverse shell via WinAPRS memory corruption bug
This installment will review and demonstrate functional exploits for WinAPRS on both Windows XP SP3 and Windows 10.
3532
XMODEM in 2022
Let's start at the beginning: it all started with me trying to boot a system which receives its initial ramdisk over XMODEM.
3533
After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’
The world produces more food than ever, but the amount of land we use is now falling. This means we can feed more people while restoring wild habitat.
3534
3535
Lunatic brings Erlang's principles to WebAssembly
In this month’s episode of the Functional Futures podcast, our guest is Bernard Kolobara – the creator of Lunatic, an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly. Listen to the episode to find out how Erlang's guiding principles helped Bernard create a runtime that's fast, robust, and scalable.
3536
So I took a corporation to arbitration
I'm Shu. This site is mainly to document long distance running while on a ketogenic diet. Sometimes there are posts about technology.
3537
So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router
Floodgap has had a T1 line since I moved into this house in 2011. I'm one of those weirdos who runs my own hardware and prefers to avoid ...
3538
3539
The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)
On GPT-3: meta-learning, scaling, implications, and deep theory. The scaling hypothesis: neural nets absorb data & compute, generalizing and becoming more Bayesian as problems get harder, manifesting new abilities even at trivial-by-global-standards-scale. The deep learning revolution has begun as foretold.
3540
Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities
You’re one among millions, not one in a million.